Biography

LiLi Re is an international artist collective (NO, US/FR, IT) based in Oslo, working at the intersection of theater, video, and interactive performance.

Exploring how art challenges and expands people's relationship with their surroundings, LiLi Re allows architecture, nature, and urban spaces to not only inspire but actively shape their work. Their projects often take a site-specific form, where landscapes become co-creative elements in the performative expression.

The collective builds immersive worlds in which audiences are not just witnesses but active participants in a sensory experience. By playing with fiction and reality, they create new spaces for reflection, where the boundaries between viewer and work are constantly renegotiated.

LiLi Re combines scientific, emotional, and social research to explore humanity’s complex and fascinating relationship with nature—giving otherwise silent forces a voice while navigating themes of transformation, mental health, loss, and eco-care.

Artistic project

I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN is a multidisciplinary performative and visual project that gives matter to the experience in the face of climate crises and facilitates a conversation about eco-grief. LiLi Re explores the boundaries of what we permit ourselves to grieve in contemporary society.  

The first iteration of the project took place in July 2024, with a site-specific walking performance at Engabreen part of Svartisen glacier, in Norway. Taking inspiration from the receding glacier and its resulting landscape, along with the evocative language of acts of mourning, audiences took part in a living funeral for a disappearing glacier.

LiLi Re’s desire is now to continue developing a performative, site-specific mourning practice—not confined to glaciers but extending to other landscapes, both nationally and internationally, that are directly threatened by climate change.

To connect empathically with environments that are quietly disappearing, it becomes essential to uncover the emotional scars they leave behind.

Format: walking performance with installative elements

Size of audience: up to 50 people 

Specific location: outdoor spaces 

Timing / duration: varies according to the different locations